Are MMA Fighters Too Prone To Injury?

With the cancellation of one the UFC's main fight cards due to an injury of one of the fighters in the main event, the spotlight has shed new light on to the training safety of mixed martial arts. Now some would argue that this was only a "one time matter", but a subsequent injury happened with the UFC's newly acquired Strikeforce promotion which caused the card to be cancelled. After this occurrence, this was no longer labled as a "coincidence". People really began to question two things, is there something happening with the fighter's training that
is causing them to be more injury prone or is there something happening with the promotion that is keeping them from finding the proper replacement fighter?

In response to the first quandry that has started to appear on various forums,

radio shows, and sports news casts, the sport of mixed martial arts can be very taxing on the body. There is the general assumption that the part of the fight where the most injuries can occur is the actual fight. While this is a very good assumption because of the amount of cosmetic damage that can be inflicted upon someone, it is not where most injuries occur. Most injuries occur while they are actually training for the upcoming fight. More specifically right about two thirds of the way through training is where the body is at its most weakest state and injuries can occur. Now for the question, is there a way to keep fighters healthy through this training stage while making sure they are ready for their fight. The answer is yes, and keep in mind most professional fighters do, but having the same experience level training partners will help keep injuries down. Also having experienced health trainers will keep injuries down.

The next question is, why don't these multi-million dollar fighting promotions have contingency plans in place for when a fighter does get injured? This is where some of the information is a little foggy. It definitely depends on the promotion, but in most cases the promotion has set up these matches through careful planning and various preliminary bouts to find out who the top contenders are. That being said, there is also the fact that for up to 6 months, the opposing fighter has been training for that exact fighter. So to ask a fighter to fight someone they haven't been training for is to ask an awful lot. Ecspecially if the fighter has a family and various other obligations to worry about.

There is a lot of variables that can cause a fighter to become injured. All in all though, the sport of mixed martial arts does have a very low injury rate compared to other professional sports, ecspecially with the intensity involved.

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